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Pete

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. --John 15:13

About Me

I am pretty much a laid-back type of guy who is a believer-follower of Jesus. I love being around family and friends and meeting new people as well. Much of my life has been dedicated to music as a classical pianist and composer but I also have a variety interests outside of music as well. MySpace Layouts @ HOT FreeLayouts.com MyHotComments
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My Interests

Music; Aviation; Art; Fitness; Nutrition; BMX; Hiking/Camping/Winter Expeditions; Math; Science; Museums; Concerts; XBOX; Board Games; Traveling; Coffee Houses; the Beach; Parks; Game Shows; Joke Telling; Antiques; Electronics; 80's Stuff; and etc.

I'd like to meet:

Johann Sebastian Bach; Sergei Rachmaninov; Vladimir Horowitz; Isaac Newton; Blaise Pascal; Picasso; Claude Monet; Pablo Casals; Herbert Von Braun; U2; Condoleezza Rice; Jay Leno; Rodney Dangerfield; Billy Graham; Chuck Swindoll; Charles Stanley; John Calvin; Renoir; DaVinci; Billy Joel; Colin Powell; Van Halen; Bill Gates; Warren Buffett; Donald Trump; Plato; Aristotle; Socrates; the Apostles; David; Jabez; Moses; Adam; Eve; Solomon; Daniel; Noah; Elijah; Isaiah; Dan Abrams; Larry King; and etc.

Music:

Too much to list: Bach; Beethoven; Mozart; Chopin; Liszt; Rachmaninov; Brahms; Schumann; Debussy; Prokofiev; U2; Radiohead; Coldplay; Green Day; Nickelback; Lifehouse; Van Halen; Billy Joel; 80's Music; other decades; The Beatles; Jars of Clay; The Violet Burning; Shane and Shane; Sanctus Real; Rebecca St. James; and etc.

Movies:

The Chronicles of Narnia; The Lord of the Rings (all); The Outsiders; Back to School; The Princess Bride; Space Balls; Big Fish; Castaway; The Breakfast Club; The Matrix; The Green Mile; Back to the Future; Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Star Wars (all); Fists of Legend; Enter the Dragon; Predator 1&2; Lethal Weapon (all); Terminator (all); Red Dawn; The Toy; Willy Wonka; Brainstorm; Vanilla Sky; Walk the Line; Sleeper; Field of Dreams; Mr. Holland's Opus; A Beautiful Mind; Gone with the Wind; Mighty Joe Young; Miracle on 34th Street; March of the Wooden Soldiers; and etc.

Television:

Discovery Channel; A&E; Breakfast with the Arts; The Food Network; Jeopardy; TLC; The Ovation Channel; Discovery Wings; The Military Channel; The Weather Channel; The Wonder Years; The Apprentice; Regis and Kelly; Seinfeld; Law and Order; Rockstar Supernova; and etc.

Books:

The Bible; Research on Johann Sebastian Bach by Christoph Wolff; Research on Johann Sebastian Bach by Philipp Spitta; Beethoven's Piano Sonatas by Charles Rosen; Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition by Douglas Seaton; Of Mice and Men; Poetry; C.S. Lewis; J.R.R. Tolkien; Robert Frost; Henry David Thoreau; Ralph Waldo Emerson; J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (Books I and II), The Partitas, The English Suites, The French Suites, The Inventions; Ludwig Van Beethoven: The 32 Piano Sonatas and Five Concerti; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: The Piano Concerti and Piano Sonatas; Rachmaninov: Preludes, Etudes Tableaux, Sonatas, Concerti; Chopin: Ballades, Etudes, Nocturnes, Scherzi, Concerti; Scriabin; Franz Lizst: Transcendental Etudes and Concerti; Robert Schumann; Johannes Brahms; Debussy; Prokofiev: Piano Concerti and Piano Sonatas; The Purpose Driven Life; Tender Warrior; The Grace Awakening; Great Pianists Speak for Themselves; The Well-Tempered Piano Teacher; Grace Walk; Corporate Financial Management by Edward B. Flowers; The Road Ahead by Bill Gates; The Bible Knowledge Commentary by John F. Walvoord; Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis by John F. Walvoord; The New Illustrated Bible Commentary; Charles Ryrie; Grudem's Systematic Theology; Merrill Unger; Charles Swindoll; Tony Evans; Bill Hybels; Charles Stanley; Millard Erickson; D.A. Carson; Books on Systematic Theology; and etc.

Heroes:

Jesus; My Mom and Dad; My Family; My Friends.

My Blog

The God-Shaped Hole

In a sense, we are all like puzzles created intentionally with a missing puzzle piece. With this piece that is missing, we try to fit other things into where this empty space is: money, powe...
Posted by Pete on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:58:00 PST

A Prayer of Jesus

John 17 (NASB)1 Jesus spoke these things; and lifting up His eyes to heaven, He said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify Your Son, that the Son may glorify You, 2 even as You gave Him authority over ...
Posted by Pete on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST

The Road Less Traveled

  Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,   And sorry I could not travel both   And be one traveler, long I stood   And looked down one as far as I could   To where it bent i...
Posted by Pete on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:50:00 PST

Praises and Prayer Requests

I would like to extend an invitation to anyone if they would like to share any Praise Reports of what God is doing in their lives as well as any Prayer Requests, for things both spoken or unspoken, th...
Posted by Pete on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:47:00 PST